On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 08:24, Chris Chabot wrote: > Thing is, i'm working on a few other posible patches for yum.. two of > which would depend on non-compressed headers. > > One is a proof-of-concept tool that downloads the headers from a > normal redhat ftp server (open rpm file, only read in & parse sig, > lead and header part of the file, and save header to disk and generate > a local header.info), and one to parse up2date saved headers. > > Both would rely on non compressed .hdr parsing ;-) The first is asking for trouble in keeping things updated. Keeping up with a unindexed repository will be a serious pain in the ass. I looked into it in some detail. Also reading _just_ the header from a remote site will require turning off any signature checking in rpm as rpm 4.2 and above will want to read the whole file in, otherwise. -sv
